CIEH responds to RSPH research on public health workforce

Responding to the new ‘Untapped Potential’ report published by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) during Public Health Workforce Week (6-10 October), the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) echoes its concerns raised about workforce and retention challenges which need to be addressed to protect public health and wellbeing.

Mark Elliott, President of CIEH, said:

“MPs are telling us that public health should be the Government’s highest environmental health priority.

“Therefore, CIEH echoes the sentiments expressed in the RSPH’s report that greater recognition is needed of the crucial impact that public health must have in the shift to a preventative healthcare system.

“This includes ensuring it is fit to face these challenges now and in the coming years, and this means urgently addressing the recruitment, retention and training issues being faced in these professions.”